ELENA AGUILAR is Founder and President of Bright Morning Consulting, an international education, coaching, and consulting firm that offers new learning practices to organizations that aspire to build resilient communities and a just and equitable world. She has twenty years' experience as a classroom teacher and instructional and leadership coach.

LORI COHEN has over twenty years' experience working in public and independent schools as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, administrator, and workshop facilitator. She designs practical and portable learning experiences and facilitates sessions with a strong infusion of humor and heart.

About the Authors xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction1

A Couple Notes on Anonymity and Terminology 4

Pulling Back the Curtain 4

Defining Professional Development 7

Creating the Conditions for Learning 12

What If PD Could Be More Like a Party? 16

Who We Are and Who You Are 18

What Is in This Book? 20

Before You Go 23

1 Determine Purpose 25

Dismantling PD Apathy 26

Purpose: The Foundation for Transformational Learning 27

Create Purposeful Plans 32

Communicate: Make the Learning Matter 37

Putting It All Together 40

Assessing Impact 42

Before You Go 47

2 Engage Emotions 49

What You Need to Know about Emotions to Deliver Transformative PD 51

Grumpiness, Pet Peeves, and Triggers 59

Creating Psychological Safety 64

Mitigating Dominant Culture: Creating Safe-ish Spaces 75

Beyond Psychological Safety 80

Before You Go 83

3 Navigate Power 85

Sources of Power 88

Leveraging Power 99

The Impact of Power 102

Possibilities for Navigating Power 106

How to Dissolve Resistance 112

Start and End with Relationships 117

Before You Go 118

4 Anchor in Adult Learning 119

You Can't Make People Learn 121

Adult Learning Theory 101 126

The Stages of Learning 133

Adult Learning in the Virtual PD World 138

You Can Create the Conditions for Learning 140

Before You Go 141

5 Design Intentionally 143

Tools for Intentional Design 146

A Process for Intentional Design 154

Shift the Dominant Culture in Design 171

Before You Go 175

6 Attend to Details 177

Details Matter to Learning 179

Long-Term Planning: Get Ready 182

Short-Term Planning: Finalize the Details 196

The Day Of: Go Time 200

Closing: Leave Things Better Than You Found Them 205

Before You Go 208

7 Facilitate Adaptively 209

Detours Happen 211

When Harm Happens 214

The Roots of Adaptive Facilitation: Know Yourself 217

Becoming an Adaptive Facilitator: Skill Sets to Refine 221

Addressing PD Detours 228

Reimagining What's Possible 236

Before You Go 237

Conclusion239 Appendix A: The Core Emotions 243

Appendix B: Nonviolent Communication's Universal Human Needs 247

Appendix C: What-Why-How Agenda Template 253

Appendix D: Structures for Virtual Learning 255

Appendix E: Checklist for Attending to the Details 257

Appendix F: Resources for Further Learning 261

Glossary 263

References 267

Index 269